A fifteen-year-old boy from Dordrecht has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the death of a seventeen-year-old boy on Friday evening in southeast Amsterdam. A suspect was also arrested on Sunday. The victim was shot at the Haardstee in the Zuidoost district. He was so injured that he died instantly. The prime suspect … Read more
NewsPhoto ANNOUNCEMENTS•yesterday, 20:48 Police arrested a 16-year-old suspect this afternoon in connection with an earlier shooting in southeast Amsterdam. A 17-year-old boy died there last Friday shot. Police received a report of a shooting at Haardstee at around 10.30pm that evening. The 17-year-old victim was seriously injured. Paramedics tried to revive the boy at the … Read more
A 17-year-old boy died in a shooting in Amsterdam on Friday night. Police arrested two suspects. The emergency services were alerted at around 10.30pm about the accident on Haardstee in the Zuidoost district. Paramedics tried to revive the boy, but were unsuccessful. The victim died instantly. It is still unclear exactly where the shooting took … Read more
arrives.nl In collaboration with Hamburg ANNOUNCEMENTS•yesterday, 12:24 Yesterday evening a night train ran for the first time on the Maastricht-Schiphol route. The regional carrier Arriva’s train departed Maastricht at 01:01 and traveled to Schiphol via Eindhoven, Utrecht and Amsterdam South, among others. Got there at 3:15. The night train now runs every Friday evening. Arriva … Read more
Amsterdam Museum In collaboration with NH News ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 11:51 The Rijksmuseum and the Amsterdam Museum must return valuable exhibits to relatives of German Jewess Emma Budge, the Restitutions Committee said. decided. According to the Committee, it is sufficiently plausible that his heirs lost their property involuntarily after his death. These are four 17th century silver … Read more
ANP extension ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 18:32 Pride Amsterdam will have a new look next year. The event, which will be called Queer & Pride Amsterdam, lasts for thirteen days instead of nine and the content is in the hands of two organisations. The first week, which starts on 22 July, is organized by Queer Amsterdam (QA), a … Read more
NH/AT5 News In collaboration with NH News ANNOUNCEMENTS•yesterday, 21:46 Around 2,700 million cubic meters of water were discharged from Amsterdam’s canals to move a houseboat. The houseboat didn’t fit under a bridge, so Rijkswaterstaat lowered the water level by about 7 centimeters, he writes NH News. All the water ended up in the North Sea … Read more